...Antoinette Ophelia Wilson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the perception of the role of storytelling in organizational change in this study involving eight principals and administrators in three of Central Florida’s counties. The study concerns the change from the “No Child Left...

...Anders Kryger The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the successful strategy formulation process of a new purchasing department at an international engineering group. The strategy formulation was co-created by the department manager and employees at a storytelling workshop...

... show how storytelling led to an increasingly open and ultimately universalizing tendency with the center, thus demonstrating both the potentials and limits of using stories within organizations. Originality/value The current paper adds to the storytelling literature by showing how stories not only...

... ; Polkinghorne, 2007 ; Flory and Iglesias, 2010). Additionally, the circulation of stories contributes greatly to organizational learning (Czarniawska, 1998 ; Brown et al., 2005). Storytelling produces stories that draw from an individual's overarching narratives. This argument has three key...

... Publishing Limited 2012 Brand management Rhetoric Narratives Storytelling Meanings Persuasive brand management Brand management has traditionally been grounded in a product and firm‐centric perspective that sees consumers as simply passive recipients of brand meaning (Prahalad...

... validation of stories), which has led to an increasing dismissal of analysis in narrative research. Inadvertently, however, this development has also heightened vulnerability to ideological deception in storytelling. Design/methodology/approach Through the lens of Žižek's theory of ideology, this paper...

...David M. Boje; Ken Baskin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a typology of enchantment approaches that are related to storytelling practices in organizations: enchantment by design and enchantment by emergence. Design/methodology/approach The authors explore this enchantment...

... patronage and imposition of meanings. Implications for organizations are suggested. Originality/value The discursive manipulation of the meaning of time as a way of organizational patronage is considered. Narratives Storytelling Globalization Multinational companies The research was based...

...Hugo Letiche; Robert v Boeschoten; Sanjev Dugal; Cheryl A. Lapp; Adrian N. Carr Purpose To show the reader that storytelling can be seen as a form of seduction based on emotional response and thereby preventing a change process within the organisation. Design/methodology/approach Case study...

...Hugo Letiche; Robert v Boeschoten; Sanjev Dugal; Ruth Steuer; Thomaz Wood Purpose The aim is to discuss how storytelling can be used in different ways to enlighten change processes occurring within and after a takeover situation. Design/methodology/approach Case study reseach based on in‐depth...

... observed that Tom Peters' narratives of business build and depend upon organizational stories to achieve their effects. Recognising that tales of the organization play an important role in sensemaking and sensegiving endeavours, this paper reviews Peters' organizational storytelling in the light...

... of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Self-ethnography Professional development Storytelling Case-studies Narrative learning Co-editors for this special issue: Sajev Dugal (University of Rhode Island),Matthew Eriksen (University of Florida...

... as giving them their endemic role in complexity”. Narratives Knowledge management Knowledge processes Cybernetics Communication processes Storytelling Story is defined as an account or recital of an event or a series of events or incidents that is either true or fictitious. For Boje (2000...

.../methodology/approach Building upon a critical review of the literature concerned with organizational storytelling the paper “re‐views” the Harvard rendering of the Sears case as an epic tale. The paper then supplements this epic rendering of the Sears case with another two accounts of the case, which recast...

... of emotional expression is developed. The paper proceeds along the following outline. First a brief review of the literature on emotions in organizations will be presented. This is followed by an explanation of narrative analysis or storytelling as the method of inquiry in the study. An analysis...

...Connie Fletcher Argues that storytelling in police organizations functions on two well‐known levels: the educational and therapeutic; and also on a hidden level, the social. On this level, storytelling serves to ratify some members and ostracize others. It also works to preserve the model...

...; and understanding stories to be a powerful tool for learning and development. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Executives Learning Management development Nurses Organizational politics Storytelling In addition to being seen as cultural building blocks, stories are also conceptualized social...

...Mary E. Boyce; Carol Ann Franklin Retired, national YWCA leaders engaged in shared storytelling in order to explore organizational learning that occurred during 1946‐1970, a critical period of organizational history for the YWCA of the USA. Adopting an organizational mission to eliminate racism...

... theory, examines key studies of organizational story and storytelling, identifies multidisciplinary foundations, and presents challenges to the application of story work in organizations. Organizational symbolism has been cast as an aspect of the organizational culture literature. Pondy et al...

...Ann T. Jordan Storytelling has been identified as an important vehicle for culture transmission. Explores the role of story creation and storytelling in culture change and culture formation. Using an anthropological approach, the research was conducted using qualitative methodology and a holistic...